Are you willing to die for your beliefs?

[dwardwarbinx]

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The ZEN masters don't need any beliefs to be better at all...they simply exist and become!

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is that even possible? sources kuno sir. it's just really hard for me to believe that people can actually do things without believing in them first.

wahehe

[regnauld]

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is that even possible? sources kuno sir. it's just really hard for me to believe that people can actually do things without believing in them first.

wahehe

Zen is not about self improvement. We don’t strive to become something, or to overcome our deficiencies. We practice to allow the natural, authentic unfolding of buddha-nature to manifest. Our effort is about clearing away delusion and ignorance. This means getting out of our own way, allowing this magnificence, this authentic true self to manifest. In this way healing and world peace are not an impossible distant dream, but exist right now, right here in this very moment.

Teaching | Empty Gate Zen Center

[pixelwise]

Zen is not about self improvement. We don’t strive to become something, or to overcome our deficiencies. We practice to allow the natural, authentic unfolding of buddha-nature to manifest. Our effort is about clearing away delusion and ignorance. This means getting out of our own way, allowing this magnificence, this authentic true self to manifest. In this way healing and world peace are not an impossible distant dream, but exist right now, right here in this very moment.

Teaching | Empty Gate Zen Center

... kill the buddha

[dwardwarbinx]

Zen is not about self improvement. We don’t strive to become something, or to overcome our deficiencies. We practice to allow the natural, authentic unfolding of buddha-nature to manifest. Our effort is about clearing away delusion and ignorance. This means getting out of our own way, allowing this magnificence, this authentic true self to manifest. In this way healing and world peace are not an impossible distant dream, but exist right now, right here in this very moment.

Teaching | Empty Gate Zen Center

pero mu-believe man ka in the power of zen to become zen. wahehe

mu-insist jud ko, sir. haha

... kill the buddha

buddha's dead. :P

[regnauld]

pero mu-believe man ka in the power of zen to become zen. wahehe

mu-insist jud ko, sir.

All of them had one major problem: They all believed something. As Buddha's practice deepened, he realized that all belief systems were limited. "That's not the way," he decided. "If you believe anything, already you have lost the way."

[dwardwarbinx]

All of them had one major problem: They all believed something. As Buddha's practice deepened, he realized that all belief systems were limited. "That's not the way," he decided. "If you believe anything, already you have lost the way."

ooooooh. okay. i don't really know much about buddhism and zen and stuff.

thanks. ana diay na. but that's so hard to do.

[regnauld]

ooooooh. okay. i don't really know much about buddhism and zen and stuff.

thanks. ana diay na. but that's so hard to do.

Eventually, the Buddha just sat down. He sat down for six years. Breathing in, breathing out. What am I? One morning he saw the morning star [claps] and realized great enlightenment. What did he see? What do you see in front of you right now? Is that great enlightenment?
The Buddha taught us that everything is already enlightened. Everything is already complete just as it is now. So, like him, we have to use this great question and deep practice of breathing in and breathing out to let go of our ideas, our opinions, our situation -- everything.

[regnauld]

Breathing in and breathing out. Only let go. Then when everything disappears, the truth is right in front of us. We already have it. It's already all around us. Why make something more? That's the truth of our way. So, any idea, any belief, any understanding, throw it away, open your eyes, and perceive.

[dwardwarbinx]

Breathing in and breathing out. Only let go. Then when everything disappears, the truth is right in front of us. We already have it. It's already all around us. Why make something more? That's the truth of our way. So, any idea, any belief, any understanding, throw it away, open your eyes, and perceive.

aww. thanks sa lecture sir. ka-gets nako. di jud ko mag-buddhist then. pfft.

sir, unsa gni to imo religion? if you have any? i lost track.

[regnauld]

aww. thanks sa lecture sir. ka-gets nako. di jud ko mag-buddhist then. pfft.

Then we say, helping all beings is possible. If you cling to your idea or your belief, helping all beings is not possible. It's tainted by a fixed idea. So, in Zen we say, throw away all ideas, perceive this situation as it is and correct action becomes possible. The correct way is very clear. But, if we cling to something, we lose it.

Peace to all Religions!